The workshop gathered together representatives of 4 ongoing ICT projects of the BioSense Center in Novi Sad: EOPower, InnoSense, ADVANTAGE and FRACTALS, members of the European Microwave Association and many SME from the region. The idea was to expose regional SMEs to the latest state-of-the-art research results in EO and ICT and to receive a feedback on industry needs and challenges. Thus, the organisation of the workshop in Novi Sad was driven by the paradigm that scientific institutions should no longer produce solutions for the users, but with the users.

On the first day of the workshop, the EOPower project and the Permanent Networking Facility were presented within the plenary session of the workshop:

On the second day of the workshop 22 participants, including 8 SMEs (or SME clusters) were present at the EOPower remote sensing morning session and the training for marketing toolkits. In the afternoon 17 more SMEs joined the promotion of the FRATALS project and FIWIRE tools. The speakers at the session and titles of their presentation were:
2. HAMAC Bringing Space Down to Earth Initiative
George Karantonis, General Secretary of HAMAC and CEO of VCI, Greece
3. Sensor and Data Fusion based Data Processing and Decision Support Systems in AGRIMONIS
Deniz Turgay Altilar, TARBIL/Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
4. Automated livestock production systems in Northern Europe – adoption and perspectives
Soren Markus Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
5. Marketing toolkits and creating business opportunities for earth observation
Mark Noort, HCP international, The Netherlands, The Netherlands
6. Remote Sensing Toolkits for Land Management in Serbia
Branko Brkljač, BioSense Center, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
7. UAV Applications in Civil Engineering and Architecture
Vassilios Tsioukas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
8. From precision agriculture to phytotechnology
Spyros Fountas, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
9. Unmanned search and rescue with UAVs
Jesús Pablo González, Fundació Privada ASCAMM, Spain